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NVIDIA OpenCL Linux Performance Benchmarks

12-21-2012, 02:20 AM

Phoronix: NVIDIA OpenCL Linux Performance Benchmarks

Earlier this week I shared some AMD Catalyst OpenCL benchmarks showing the performance gains made by AMD's proprietary Radeon graphics driver this year in bettering the GPGPU results. In this article is similar testing on the NVIDIA side with their binary driver...

Earlier this week I shared some AMD Catalyst OpenCL benchmarks showing the performance gains made by AMD's proprietary Radeon graphics driver this year in bettering the GPGPU results. In this article is similar testing on the NVIDIA side with their binary driver...

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In my practical knowledge AMD is faster but Nvidia has an much much better Developer Support and Documentation. I have nothing from am cheaper card if i have to invest my time to get things working well.

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In my practical knowledge AMD is faster but Nvidia has an much much better Developer Support and Documentation. I have nothing from am cheaper card if i have to invest my time to get things working well.

Developer Support and Documentation? Can't you use any OpenCL documentation out there?

And as an end user... when not writing programs by yourself, the amount of documentation and developer support shouldn't matter...

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The Hardware is to different. Sure you can write simple openCL code but then expect that he is slow. You has to optimize it for each Hardware vendor. For this Optimizations you need the Documents and Support from the Vendor.

And as an end user... when not writing programs by yourself, the amount of documentation and developer support shouldn't matter...

Indirect yes. But if no one develop the Software on AMD Hardware and test maybe only if it works, the user has nothing from the fast hardware if he is not well used. As an example. Try to get an OpenGL SDK from AMD that is not completely outdated. Or an bit simpler try to get the OpenGL headers from AMD. The Radeon SDK is extremely outdated ( 2005 ).

Please Note that the khronos group refer to the hardware vendors for this.